RHEL 6 / 7 : rh-ror41 (RHSA-2016:0456)

high Nessus Plugin ID 210156

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for rh-ror41.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2016:0456 advisory.

The rh-ror41 collection provides Ruby on Rails version 4.1. Ruby on Rails is a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development.

The following issues were corrected in rubygem-actionview:

A directory traversal flaw was found in the way the Action View component searched for templates for rendering. If an application passed untrusted input to the 'render' method, a remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to render unexpected files and, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2016-2097)

A code injection flaw was found in the way the Action View component searched for templates for rendering. If an application passed untrusted input to the 'render' method, a remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2098)

Red Hat would like to thank the Ruby on Rails project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Jyoti Singh and Tobias Kraze (makandra) as original reporters of CVE-2016-2097, and Tobias Kraze (makandra) and joernchen (Phenoelit) as original reporters of CVE-2016-2098.

All rh-ror41 collection rubygem-actionview packages users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All running applications using the rh-ror41 collection must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL rh-ror41 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2016:0456.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 210156

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2016-0456.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/4/2024

Updated: 11/5/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-2098

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ror41-rubygem-actionpack, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ror41-rubygem-actionview-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ror41-rubygem-actionpack-doc

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/29/2016

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Ruby on Rails ActionPack Inline ERB Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2097, CVE-2016-2098

CWE: 22, 94

RHSA: 2016:0456

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